Chapter Forty-Nine: Moving Graves and Collecting Gold
When Li Xiaoning saw that Li Xingfeng was about to speak, he hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "Stop, stop." I don't need to go into detail here. We're just drinking today. ”
"Good! Drink. Li Xingfeng also smiled and said, "This wine is good today, it's good wine." ”
Li Xiaoning smiled: "It's good wine." If you have good wine, you have to drink it to your heart's content! ”
"Then let's remove the small cup and replace it with a large one?" Li Xingfeng said again.
"Change the big cup!" Li Xiaoning also said cheerfully.
Li Xiaoning is at the level of a wine fairy, but he didn't expect Li Xingfeng to be at the level of a god of wine, so this wine was thrilling. Afterwards, Yang Changqing recalled: "I remembered the battle between Duan Yu and Xiao Feng in Deyue Tower. ”
At this moment, there was no red wine on the table, and all of them were replaced with 52 degrees of Yanghe Dream Blue, but all the drinking glasses were replaced with goblets for drinking red wine, and a bottle of white wine could only hold two and a half glasses.
Li Xiaoning took a sip and Li Xingfeng took a sip, but Yang Changqing obviously couldn't stand this rhythm. The first cup could barely keep up with the rhythm, and when the second cup was held, the tears were choked, but he was infected by the arrogance of Li Xiaoning and the others, so he smashed the third cup into his stomach with a stalk, and then fell on the table with a clatter.
After drinking the Nth cup, Li Xiaoning said: "The matter of moving the grave, please Xingfeng you." As for the honorarium......"
"You've already paid the gratuity!" Li Xingfeng said with a smile in the corner of his eyes.
"Paid?" Li Xiaoning was a little puzzled, "When did I pay it?" ”
Li Xingfeng laughed and said, "You are also forgetful!" Although the terracotta figurines of the Han Dynasty are a dark vessel, they are also real antiques, and the small 200,000 yuan is still worth it. ”
"So you're waiting for me here!" Li Xiaoning also smiled and said, "Okay, I've made up your friend." Drink! ”
In this battle, Li Xiaoning and Li Xingfeng fought to a draw. Afterwards, Yang Changqing recalled: "Li Xiaoning drinks cleanly and neatly, goes forward, and is heroic; Li Xingfeng drinks softly and firmly, endlessly, and has constant stamina, both of them are masters. ”
Early the next morning, Li Xingfeng followed Li Xiaoning to Pingshan Town. When he came, Li Xiaoning took a bicycle and a long-distance bus, and tossed for two days, but when he went back, he sat on Li Xingfeng's Hummer, and he came to Xiaoyangzhuang after a few hours of hard work.
When the villagers heard that Mayor Xiao Li had specially invited the best feng shui physiognomist from the provincial capital to move their graves, they were very excited, and they all wanted to see what kind of style this feng shui physiognomy master was.
But when they saw Li Xingfeng, they all showed disappointed expressions on their faces without exception, for no other reason, Li Xingfeng was too young. Standing with Li Xiaoning, just like Li Xiaoning's brother, with their imaginary white beard fluttering, fairy wind bones are not at all compatible.
Li Xingfeng naturally saw the distrust in the eyes of the villagers, but he still stood with a light smile, looking confident.
Yang Chengcai took the lead and said coldly: "This gentleman, what do you think of the feng shui of this cemetery in our Xiaoyangzhuang?" He wanted to probe Li Xingfeng's bottom and see how many catties and taels he had, because this land was selected by a very famous feng shui master during the Republic of China.
Li Xingfeng smiled and said: "This piece of land, 'head resting on the mountain, foot pedaling river', is a high-grade auspicious point, called 'water dragon lying on the side', I think there was also a master to guide me back then." ”
When Yang Chengcai heard this, his face softened slightly, and he said: "Since Mr. can see that this land is a treasure of feng shui, I don't think we will build a tomb." ”
"No!" Li Xingfeng said with a smile on his face, "I'm here to persuade you to move the grave." ”
Yang Chengcai asked, "Why is this?" ”
Li Xingfeng pointed to the river not far away and said, "If my guess is correct, this river should be diverted, it wasn't so close to here before." ”
Yang Chengcai nodded and said, "Not bad." Listening to the old people in the village, this river did change its course during the Liberation War, and it was changed to this side for nearly 100 meters. ”
Li Xingfeng nodded and said, "That's it." In the past, this piece was indeed a piece of Ji'er acupoint, but that was before the river was diverted, and the underground water veins were still far away from the acupuncture points, but now the water veins have been diverted, and the water vapor directly rushes to the acupuncture points, and it is not suitable to bury people. It's already a must-move murderous grave pattern? ”
Yang Chengcai was a little unconvinced, raised his eyebrows and said: "This gentleman, I also have some understanding, the pattern of murderous graves that must be moved refers to the 'six cones and four decays of the underground cold', I don't know which one of our lands is committing now?" ”
Li Xingfeng smiled slightly and said, "You also know the 'six cone and four decay underground cold'? That's easy to say. Since it is the water vapor that rushes to the acupuncture points, it is naturally cold underground. ”
Yang Chengcai frowned and asked, "What evidence do you have?" ”
Li Xingfeng didn't answer Yang Chengcai's question, but asked directly: "Since you know something, naturally you have also heard the saying 'picking up gold in the north and washing bones in the south'?" ”
Yang Chengcai nodded and said, "I know this." The so-called gold collection means that in the eyes of later generations, the bones of the ancestors are quite valuable, and a piece of bone is like a piece of gold. In our northern region, the heaven and earth are dry, the water and soil are deep, and when the grave is moved and the coffin is opened, most of the flesh and blood of the ancestors have been decomposed and dissolved, and only a lot of white bones are left in the coffin. The white bones in the coffin need to be picked out one by one, put into the new coffin, and then according to the structure of the human skeleton, one by one in the new coffin for restoration, and then seal the coffin and transport gold, and send the new coffin to another pre-selected feng shui treasure for burial.
And the washing of bones mostly refers to the fact that in the southern region, the weather is humid, there is rain all year round, and the remains of the ancestors are buried in the ground, and the flesh and blood are still not dissolved after several years. After death, the soul attaches itself to the bones, waiting to be reincarnated. And the flesh and blood are the filthy things that are born in this life, and the soul on the bones can rest only after the dust is returned to dust and the earth is melted away. Therefore, when moving the grave, if you see that the flesh and blood of the ancestors are still incomplete after the museum is opened, you need to place the picked out white bones in clear water, wash the rotten flesh on the bones one by one, and then place the clean white bones without a trace of flesh and blood in the new coffin before the ancestors can be reburied. ”
Li Xingfeng nodded and said, "You are very right. Therefore, it is very simple for you to have evidence, find a grave, open it and take a look, if this is still a feng shui auspicious point, then there is naturally gold to pick up, if it is already a murderous grave, then you can only wash the bones. How, do you dare to make this bet with me? ”
Yang Chengcai couldn't help but hesitate. When the other villagers saw that Li Xingfeng was sure, they all wanted to see if what he said was right, so they encouraged them one after another.
Yang Chengcai couldn't stand everyone's coaxing, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make this bet with you." That grave is our family's ancestral grave, so let's go and see if what you said is right! If it's not right, I'll settle the score. ”
Li Xingfeng laughed and said, "I said just now that you know the rules, why did you become a layman again in a blink of an eye?" Where is it so easy to move graves? In broad daylight, the yang energy is so strong, how can you open a tomb? Besides, since the grave is going to be moved, why should the new tomb be selected first. In addition, you have to choose an auspicious day. ”
Listening to Li Xingfeng's chatter, Li Xiaoning hurriedly coughed a few times beside him, he didn't want to delay for so long, the sooner the matter of moving the grave was decided, the better.
Li Xingfeng immediately understood, his right hand bent up for a while, and then he changed his words and said: "Tonight is an auspicious day, suitable for moving graves." The new cave can be selected on the sunny side of the hillside in the west of the village, where it is backed by the remaining veins of the earth dragon and faces the river, although it is not a rich and noble feng shui treasure land, but it is also an auspicious land. The place he was talking about was the new site where the town government had decided to move the grave.
The villagers also like to see the excitement, and they wish they could see the new things earlier, and when they heard that the graves were going to be moved tonight, they all responded with a clamour. Anyway, it is the ancestral grave of Yang Chengcai's family, and it is not his own family.
That night, the moon was in the sky and the breeze was blowing. The villagers came to the scene early, ready to see the excitement.
It was one o'clock in the morning. Li Xingfeng announced that the auspicious time has arrived! The grave relocation ceremony officially began, Li Xingfeng first offered sacrifices, read the sacrificial text, and ordered Yang Chengcai to bow three times and bow nine times in front of the tomb.
Afterwards, Li Xingfeng incinerated a earth-breaking spirit talisman on the plain wax of the offering table, and then said, "You can break the ground." ”
Several young people who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped forward with shovels to dig up the coffin. At first, the soil on the surface layer was still dry soil, but after digging a few shovels, the soil dug up again became wet, and then it was simply a shovel of black mud. Yang Chengcai watched from the side, and couldn't help but be moved, it seems that this Li Xingfeng does have two hits.
Seven or eight young men were full of energy, and soon they dug up the coffin. Digging two feet under the coffin lid, everyone stopped, and Li Xingfeng jumped into the grave to open the coffin to collect gold.
As soon as the lid of the coffin was opened, everyone rushed to the coffin to take a look, and found that the remains of Yang Chengcai's ancestors had been dissolved, and only a skeleton was left in the coffin. However, now that the remains are covered with sludge and black water, this time it must be necessary to wash the bones.
Li Xingfeng said hello, and the helper hired on the pit brought a copper basin full of clear water, and used a red rope to hang the new coffin down to the old coffin, and the new coffin had been covered with a red cloth.
Seeing that it was ready, Li Xingfeng held his breath, concentrated his attention, and began to pick up the bones and gold. He started with the skull, then the neck bone, then the sternum, then the left arm down to the left foot, and then from the right foot up to the right arm, and then washed each one in a golden basin, and then restored it in the new coffin in the order of the old coffin. It took more than half an hour of so full concentration to pick up all the golden bones.
After collecting the gold, Li Xingfeng used a red cloth as a quilt to cover the gold bones and beckoned everyone to seal the coffin. After sealing the coffin, Li Xingfeng threw a white radish into the original old coffin, which is called "a radish and a pit, and the inhabitants in the next life have their own houses".